She Enters My Dreams Every Night

A new neighbor moved in next door. Su Huaiwang saw her through the fence. The girl was slender and soft, her exposed skin transparently white in the summer sunlight, yet with the cool, jade-like texture.

Beneath her wide-brimmed hat, her delicate face showed a friendly and gentle smile when their eyes met. Su Huaiwang returned a smile, then lowered her head, continuing to tend to her vegetable garden. She didn't expect to see her new neighbor again that night.

In her dream, the girl fulfilled all her fantasies. When she woke from the dream, the sun was already high, and she looked at the small toy from last night that she hadn't had time to put away, her mind in a jumble.

So, the wildest spring dream she'd had in years was with a new neighbor she'd only met once, going through all the scenarios from last night's 'accompanying dishes'?!

Su Huaiwang covered her face in agony, wondering if something was wrong with her. The doorbell suddenly rang, and she quickly put on clothes to open it.

Standing outside the door was precisely the girl she had been intimately entangled with in her dream last night. The girl greeted her, conversed familiarly, and her hand, when it clasped Su Huaiwang's, was as cool as if it had been soaked in a stream in the summer.

Su Huaiwang, immersed in guilt, didn't pay attention to these details. Like her beautiful face, the girl was kind and gentle, radiating the vitality unique to youth, causing Su Huaiwang's long-dormant heart to pound.

She originally thought dreaming of the girl was just a coincidence, but she never imagined that every night thereafter, the girl would appear in her dreams, with the sweet smile she wore during their daytime conversations, using the scenarios Su Huaiwang had chosen before bed, trapping her in her palm, again and again.

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Su Huaiwang had once been missing for a month. During that month, no one could find her, not even herself. She suffered amnesia, completely forgetting the memories of that month. When she woke up in the hospital bed, many people surrounded her, looking at her with complex expressions.

She felt bewildered, and the answers she got when she asked were unsatisfying: "Just missing," "Just an accident." With no conclusion, Su Huaiwang quickly put the matter out of her mind.

It wasn't until a year later, while sensuously entangled with the girl in a dream, that she vaguely recalled the girl's meaningful words when discussing her disappearance.

"...Because you are so good, those dirty things harbored covetous desires." The new neighbor's exquisite brows and eyes in the sun held an unearthly beauty, and in her dreams, she was like a block of ice completely at Su Huaiwang's command.

Su Huaiwang lowered her head amidst her gasps, looking at the demure girl whose adoring gaze briefly flickered in her movements. So, who was the "dirty thing" coveting her?